December 11th 2009 by Peter · 5 comments
Should Comment Forms Have More Fields?
Often, when you visit a website, you’ll want to leave a comment there. To do that, you’ll of course write some text in a comment form. But most comment forms, regardless of their design, look the same. Sure, some do add that hated captcha field, but still, most comment forms are the same.
November 9th 2009 by Peter · 8 comments
How to Use Directions with Google Maps API V3
Google Maps are more fun when you can get directions. And now you can! The recent release of the Google Maps API adds two new classes in order to enable directions. In this article I will show you how to add an input field in an infobox and use that to render a route.
November 1st 2009 by Peter · 4 comments
5 Ways to Make Money with Your Blog
Maintaining a blog can be quite a job. Writing new, interesting articles and providing resources for your visitors can be a hassle, even though you enjoy every part of it. I am sure you’d like to earn a little something after your effort. This post looks into some easy ways to start monetizing your blog.
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October 24th 2009 by Peter · 3 comments
250+ Sweet Icons for Your External Media
Whether you’re a Mac or a Windows user, the system icons for external media such as cameras, memory cards, and external harddrives, can be pretty boring. Luckily, the world is filled with skilled (what a rhyme!) icon designers that create stunning icons for you to download for free. I’ve tried to collect some of the icons I find beatiful. Enjoy!
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October 18th 2009 by Peter · 9 comments
5 Cool Ways to Add Graphs to Your Website
Graphs, charts and diagrams can be used to visually describe data. Visualizing data is very important, as it helps the reader to understand the data even better. And even though some people might prefer viewing data in a table, I think we are many who feel more comfortable in viewing data graphically. Fortunately for us, there are several ways you can implement data into a graph on a website.
October 13th 2009 by Peter · 122 comments
Adding Custom Google Maps to Your Website
Maps are often placed on a company website to help customers find their way there. For that, Google Maps is excellent. But wouldn’t it be nice to add your company logo, parking lots, train stations, etc. to the map, to help the customer even more? It is very simple, and in this article I am going to show you how.
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September 6th 2009 by Peter · 1 comment
8 OS X Apps With Beautiful Icons
There are a lot of cool Mac applications out there, but unfortunately only some of them has beautiful icons. I’ve tried to collect some apps that I believe have pretty icons. Just like the interface means a lot to the user experience, I actually think the icon does as well. Some software developers understands this, and some unfortunately don’t.
July 3rd 2009 by Peter · 7 comments
Enhancing Your Site with WebKit
WebKit is an open source browser engine. Apple uses WebKit in Safari, Mail, and other applications. Google’s Chrome browser, along with the S60 browser and the iPhone browser, is also built on WebKit. Some of the cool features of WebKit is transitions and transforms. With purely CSS you can create stunning animations. Your site will still work in other browsers, but the users with WebKit browsers will just get a slightly better experience.
July 3rd 2009 by Andreas · 5 comments
Lights and Shadows in Photoshop
This tutorial is not too advanced but mostly to help to understand the power of shadow and light in short terms! There’s no “boring” text here. So if you are not used to Photoshop, do yourself a favor and read it all before continuing to the next step! You might learn something!
July 3rd 2009 by Peter · 6 comments
Stiern.com Relaunch
Hello, and welcome to the relaunch of Stiern.com. My former design was ugly, and so I decided to make a new one. I like it, and I hope you’ll like it too. I’ve decided not to support IE6, as the target group of this website is not IE6 users. As with many new sites, there can be some issues. I hope that you will not hesitate to contact me if you find anything unusual around here – thanks!
Well, I won’t bother you with more of this. I’ll get something posted in the near future for your pleasure.